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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

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edamamebean's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This was one of my most anticipated books of the year and I’m so glad the audiobook finally came through on libby. It was hard not to get emotional listening to Rushdie’s story. He describes traumatic incident after traumatic incident with such authorial grace and even humor. The heart of this book is actually the love story between him and his wife, poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths, which was really beautiful. Rushdie also talked a lot about something that has been on my mind lately (and the minds of many Americans these days), which is the violence of religious extremism. He writes about it very thoughtfully, which makes sense since religious extremism has affected huge parts of his life. I think everyone should read this book. 
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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

5.0

I’ve read most of his books, and I’m always struck by the vastness of his imagination. Satanic Verses was the first time I’d encountered magical realism, and I remember being grateful to be at a liberal arts college (Mount Holyoke) that was teaching it as part of an Islam class. My second book was Midnight’s Children, and that was the first time I’d learned about the Indian-Pakistani partition (also taught at Mount Holyoke as part of an Indian literature class). Since then, I’ve read almost every one of his books, and I’ve gained so much from all of them. So I was filled with sadness to find out that the reason he now wears eyeglasses with one side blacked out was due to a stabbing.
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